and also women. In 1969‚ Shirley Chisholm‚ New York state representative‚ addressed the Speaker of the House on the state of women’s opportunities and equalities. She not only was able to articulate the importance of equality for women but also equality for black women because she was the first black woman elected to Congress. At this time‚ only 2% of women occupied managerial positions in the workforce even though women outnumbered men by more than 3.5 million (Chisholm). Although it felt like America
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state on account of sex’ (History.com Staff).” Out of the thirty-eight necessary states only twenty-two ratified it right away‚ it was relieving for the moment because they the feminist advocates had been trying to be ratified since 1923. In 1972 Shirley Chisholm was the first African-American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress. The poem Ego
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Cattle Herding – A Brief HistoryArticle Selections: The Origin of Cattle Driving & Beef Trade – Pre/Post Civil War | Origin of Cattle Driving Figure [ 1 ] Drovers about to start a drive As early as 1836‚ ranchers in Texas began to drive cattle along a "Beef Trail" to New Orleans. In the 1840s‚ cattle drives expanded northward into Missouri. The towns of Sedalia‚ Baxter Springs‚ Springfield‚ and St. Louis became principal markets. The Shawnee Trail‚ also known as the Texas Road or
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If intentionality is grounded on consciousness‚ we must begin with an explanation of consciousness as a non-relational property (Crane‚ 2000‚ p. 177). Chisholm (1957) suggested one such theory‚ the adverbial theory of perception. In general terms‚ adverbialism is the view that “[...Sensory qualities are not properties of something…just way of perceiving” (Bourget and Mendelovici‚ 2014‚ p. 216)‚ in other words‚ the contents of perception are “ways of sensing and perceiving” (McGilvray‚ 2001‚ p
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Asia Hill-Matthews 5/13/2013 African American Experience Dr. Muhammad The African Amercian Experience Many African Amerciancs have gone to major extremes to secure‚ there rights in our society. They have tried to make many things better for themselves. In southern states‚ economic sanctions were appealed against African Amercians who were active in civil rights. Many were laid off from their jobs‚ loans were being denied and foreclosures of mortgages were some of the tactics used to “decimate the
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Session – II History of Historical Building and Monuments in and around Chennai Dr. G. Venkataraman Chairperson‚ School of Historical Studies HOD of the Dept. of Indian History‚ University of Madras‚ Prof. A. Anne Shanthi Ph.D.‚ Research scholar‚ Dept. of History‚ IDE‚ University of Madras. As you all know every building has its own History and like wise the Public buildings built by the British in Chennai City has now become historical monuments worthy of study. Since it has survived for
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A True Telling of Intolerance Intolerance has been a key issue over the history of our existence in this world. Many things classify as an act of intolerance toward a specific issue. Two things help predict mainstream intolerance in a culture. One arises from religious beliefs and spiritual practices. The other arises from the value of their relative position in society. First‚ a key mainstream intolerance is religious beliefs and spiritual practices. Religion serves as the master motivation
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Chisholm in Human Freedom and the Self makes the most sense out of the three major ideas of free will‚ which are Libertarianism‚ Hard Determinism‚ and Compatibilism. The basis of libertarianism is as follows: determinism is proven to be false and human possess
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will be pretentious. If they are open and confident with their sexualities they will be called ‘slut’s but if they are more reserved with their sexualities they will be called ‘prude’. There is very little they can do to avoid name-calling. Shirley Chisholm once said‚ “The emotional‚ sexual‚ and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says‚ “It’s a girl.” That being true‚ women will only face this harmful stereotyping the rest of their lives. A girl will unknowingly suffer this
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to be true‚ which led to Chisholm and Ayer constructing the necessary and sufficient conditions for a justified true belief‚ knowledge. These attempts were stated in the following form: (a) S knows that P is true‚ if and only if‚ (i) P is true‚ (ii) S believes that P is true‚ and (iii) S is justified in believing that P is true. These three conditions are necessary and sufficient enough to determine that S knows P is true. This was a problem for Gettier because Chisholm
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